Kerris
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| static_image = Kerris - geograph.org.uk - 175487.jpg
| static_image_caption = Kerris Manor Farmhouse
| coordinates = {{coord|50.08982|-5.5759|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Kerris
| cornish_name = Kerys
| population =
| population_ref =
|civil_parish = Paul
| unitary_england= Cornwall
| lieutenancy_england = Cornwall
| metropolitan_borough =
| metropolitan_county =
| region = South West England
| constituency_westminster = St Ives
| post_town = PENZANCE
| postcode_district = TR19
| postcode_area = TR
| dial_code = 01736
| os_grid_reference = SW443273
}}
Kerris ({{langx|kw|Kerys}})[http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515091028/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 |date=15 May 2013 }} : [http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515071635/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 |date=2013-05-15 }}. Cornish Language Partnership. is a settlement in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is three miles (5 km) south-west of Penzance in the civil parish of Paul.{{cite map |title=Land's End |date=2015 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |location=Southampton |isbn=978 0 319 24304 6}} Kerris means "fort-place" in the Cornish language.Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype {{ISBN|978-1-904808-22-0}}; p. 43
Toponymy
In 1302 a document spells the name Veor Keris and other spellings have been Kerres (in 1310), Kyrrys (1337), Vean Kerrys (1440), Keres (1481), Kyrris (1668). (Veor means large or great and Vean means little).{{cite book |last1=Pool |first1=Peter A S |title=The Place-names of West Penwith |date=1985 |publisher=PAS Pool |location=Heamoor |page=55 |edition=Second}}
Antiquities
Several prehistoric relics can be found around Kerris including the Roundago (possibly an Iron Age hill fort) and the Kerris Standing Stone or menhir.{{cite web |title=Kerris - Standing Stone (Menhir) |url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6051 |website=The Megalithic Portal |accessdate=11 September 2018}} Several fields away is the Tresvannack Stone which stands around 3.5m tall with a further 1.2m below ground. In 1840 a pair of urns were found under a slab of granite at the base of the stone. The urns are now kept at Penlee Museum, Penzance. Kerris cross was damaged during the English Civil War and repaired by a local blacksmith in the 19th century with iron pins holding the granite head in position. In September 2011 the corroded pins were replaced by stainless steel pins. Medieval crosses, in situ, indicate the route to the parish church.{{cite news|title=Medieval cross that marks path to church is repaired|newspaper=Cornishman|date=29 September 2011}}
File:Ancient cross at Kerris Farm - geograph.org.uk - 1417220.jpg
History
There is a former manor house, which is a grade II* listed building dating back to the 17th-century, possibly using earlier walls. Kerris was under three different ownerships until 1694. when Richard Pearce bought the three parts, Major alterations were carried out in 1721 by his son Richard Pearce (1693–1753) and in 1743 John Hawkins became the owner when Pearce and his wife, Maria, were declared bankrupt.{{sfnp|Historic England|1327506|ps=}}
In 1882 the freehold farm Kerris was advertised for sale by auction. It included a ″commodieus and substantially built farm house″ and about {{convert|80| acre}} of land. Approximately {{convert|65|acre}} was considered to be of good arable and pasture land, and {{convert|15|acre}} of croft which ″with very little expense could be brought into cultivation″.{{cite news |title=Valuable Freehold Estate For Sale |work=The Cornishman |issue=187 |date=20 April 1882 |volume=197 |page=1}} The property was bought by the owner of an adjacent tenement, Mr Thomas Bedford Bolitho, for £4,320.{{cite news |title=Kerris |work=The Cornishman |issue=190 |date=11 May 1882 |volume=200 |page=4}}
A Weselyan chapel was opened in 1905.{{cite news |title=Kerris |work=The Cornishman |issue=1396 |date=6 April 1905 |page=2}}
Culture
Kerris Brass Band was in attendance at Sheffield's Methodist New Connexion, annual Sunday school treat in June 1883.{{cite news |title=Paul |work=The Cornishman |issue=258 |date=21 June 1883 |page=4}}
References
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Sources
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- {{NHLE |num= 1327506|desc= Kerris Manor Farmhouse|accessdate=30 August 2018|mode=cs2}}
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